- If You're Not Sure Who Not To Believe, Who Has Better Reasons To Deceive? -
So. Built to Spill.
Envy me, all. Because the show was fricking incredible and amazing and reaffirms to me all the reasons why indie rock is worth all the sleepless nights, in the end.
...Okay, okay, I'll back up a bit and explain that last comment, I suppose...going to a show invariably means that I get five or so fewer hours to work on school stuffs over the weekend, which means I have to cram it all in somewhere...witness my astounding 72-hour wakefulness run last week. -_-;
Regardless, let me just say that Built to Spill was one of the most amazing shows I've seen in a long while. Yes, I know I say that about live shows a lot, and the truth is that I love live shows enough that they are all absolutely wonderful experiences. However, Built to Spill easily makes my top 10 of this year. Considering that whole 'Mariella went down to Georgia'-esque thing this summer, and that should roughly communicate to you just how amazing it was.
Every song that I could've wanted to hear, ever, was played. The sound was some of the best mixing I've heard at the Mac Hall Ballroom. Alex and I were front and centre for the entire thing. Attack in Black utterly owned as an opening act, and DAMN is their bassist ever pretty and probably my age. I got my bag signed by self-same bassist, as well as Dug from the mighty band themselves.
The best part? What could possibly trump all of that as the crowning achievement of an absolutely stellar evening, you might ask?
When they played "Goin' Against Your Mind". Seriously, everyone should hear that song played live at least once before they die. I just about lost it entirely, and even the totally e-d out chick forcing herself onto the barrier/rubbing herself all over Alex/flailing arms in people's faces couldn't ruin or dampen the awesomeness of that song in any capacity. I very nearly could hae joined her right then, actually.
Humorously, that same chick provided an addition to my WHYH end-of-the-year "best things overheard at a show in 2007" list.
Dug: "Anyways, we're going to play this song now...it's a Brian Eno cover."
Chick: *after having single-handedly ruined Canada's reputation to the band forever multiple times, reacting to the crowd's cheering* "Oh. I'm not from Calgary, so I don't know that."
...
Yes, indeed.
~Ju-chan^6
Envy me, all. Because the show was fricking incredible and amazing and reaffirms to me all the reasons why indie rock is worth all the sleepless nights, in the end.
...Okay, okay, I'll back up a bit and explain that last comment, I suppose...going to a show invariably means that I get five or so fewer hours to work on school stuffs over the weekend, which means I have to cram it all in somewhere...witness my astounding 72-hour wakefulness run last week. -_-;
Regardless, let me just say that Built to Spill was one of the most amazing shows I've seen in a long while. Yes, I know I say that about live shows a lot, and the truth is that I love live shows enough that they are all absolutely wonderful experiences. However, Built to Spill easily makes my top 10 of this year. Considering that whole 'Mariella went down to Georgia'-esque thing this summer, and that should roughly communicate to you just how amazing it was.
Every song that I could've wanted to hear, ever, was played. The sound was some of the best mixing I've heard at the Mac Hall Ballroom. Alex and I were front and centre for the entire thing. Attack in Black utterly owned as an opening act, and DAMN is their bassist ever pretty and probably my age. I got my bag signed by self-same bassist, as well as Dug from the mighty band themselves.
The best part? What could possibly trump all of that as the crowning achievement of an absolutely stellar evening, you might ask?
When they played "Goin' Against Your Mind". Seriously, everyone should hear that song played live at least once before they die. I just about lost it entirely, and even the totally e-d out chick forcing herself onto the barrier/rubbing herself all over Alex/flailing arms in people's faces couldn't ruin or dampen the awesomeness of that song in any capacity. I very nearly could hae joined her right then, actually.
Humorously, that same chick provided an addition to my WHYH end-of-the-year "best things overheard at a show in 2007" list.
Dug: "Anyways, we're going to play this song now...it's a Brian Eno cover."
Chick: *after having single-handedly ruined Canada's reputation to the band forever multiple times, reacting to the crowd's cheering* "Oh. I'm not from Calgary, so I don't know that."
...
Yes, indeed.
~Ju-chan^6